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"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
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"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."
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"I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament."
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"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
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"The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort."
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"Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian."
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"The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home."
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"If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors."
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"One person cooking at home cannot pay attention to too many things. If a woman makes three dishes, she will get nervous on the first, the second will suffer and the third will be a disaster."
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"When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters."
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"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."
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"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."
Life

"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
Home

"Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!"
Life

"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
Students

"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."
Mother

"After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes."
Attention

"My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem."
Life

"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."
Experience

"I have always loved going to school."
School
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